The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-26
Observers Observations.

Cellar your cider.
Prepare for winter.
The hunting season is well open.
The corn crop is about all secured.
The boys are gathering their walnuts.
Potatoes are worth only one dollar bushel.
Wheat is worth seventy-fve cents per
bushel.
Ex-Marshal Flanders and family have
moved to Dowagiac.
Mrs. Henry Eye is down in Ohio on a
visit TO her parents.
Willard Whitcher has got the finest crop
of turnips of the season.
John Lewis, brother-in-law of DR.. ellis
Bradley, died in Chicago short time ago.
Ed. Hayes will not 90 another season with
the Detroits as short stop. That is settled.
Tom Cotton has sold his Nighthawk stall
lion TO a Comstock gentleman named Evans.
Gene Salisbury was father of another little
waif last week that passed directly to the bet
ter land.
Madison Orr and family, who live on the
Wilson Lee place, are all down with the
scarlet fever.
Frank Harris got to be grandpa last week.
1t was Julia's-a girl-too good for this earth
and passed to the great beyond.
John Barnum, brother-in-law of Robert
Orr and Mrs. j. A. Dean died last week at
his home in Hamilton, aged about eighty
years.
link Hills of Lawrence, is about to sell
Razor B., 2.25, to Chicago party who will
use him as a road horse. We understand he
gets 81 500 for him.
Hank Filley has got to be considerable of
hotel keeper. he has a nice house, good
rooms and good tables, and we see no reason
why he can't succeed.
Geo. w. Longwell ia fixing up the Bradley
place in good shape by putting nice Stat
fence the whole length of the roadside and
making other improvements.
Charley Chappel, Sam and Dams anti
chunked grocery clerk, has recovered from
his recent sciatic troubles and is behind the
counters again as happy and pleasant as ever.
Dr. Reed tells us that he has been offered
seventy dollars per month and expenses by
the Gay Bros. of New York, TO travel for
them, selling patent medicine. We think
he will have gay time getting 1T.
Joseph Allen of Waverly, went to Kentucky
few weeks ago to make that state his future
home. He returned the other day telling US
he would not give the forty he sold when he
went away for the whole blue grass region.
Our old neighbor, Geo. Grout, now of
Three Rivers, has had a hard time of late
with rheumatism of the heart. but is now
better. Uncle Sam is kindly helping him out
by giving him twenty-four dollars per month.
Charley Scott, the old pump driver, has
been crippled up with rheumatism for the
past three months. and is now just able to
get around. He looks as though he wouldn't
kick the beam at more than forty-five pounds.
John Beam, the old war story teller of
Breedsville, made US a visit last week. He says
his dog crop did not turn out we'll and thinks
he sunk some money in the operation. 1t is
risky business, John, as we know by expe-
rience.
Alb. Grout has got TO be quite a sporting
man. Over at the Hamilton fair he was con-
siderably interested in running horse but
we understand he got knocked out by Hart
ford flyer, and yet he is not in the least dis
couraged.
Two fashionable young ladies were at our
house visiting the other day, when the ques-
ton came up as to which was the tallest
They turned their backs to measure and
three feet was about as near as they could
get to each other.
They have matinee at the Bangor driving
park tomorrow. Among the attractions
will be matched race for 800 between
.. a. Riders b. m, Belle Jr., 2.2934, of Ban
gor, and Geo. n. Hale's b. &. Siroc, 235, of
South Haven. Lots of fun is expected
Belle Jr. will probably win the cookie.
The ladies say that Jerseys are going out
of fashion. Capt. Hendryx of Hamilton, was
! taking one to the Hamilton fair the other
day and was nearly murdered by it, and we
presume the old gentleman wishes they had
gone out of fashion long before, or at least
before he got hold of them, az this is his
second seance with one.
Jim Lane has come home to winter. He
started out under the tutorship of III. A. Hills
of Lawrence, last July, with record of
2.39 and closed with one of 2.29l1. Mr..
Hills tells Us he has ridden behind him faster
than he ever travelled behind any horse and
that, barring accidents, he will 90 into the
teens next season without difficulty. He has
trotted this season in eight hot races and
dropped behind the money but once. He is
in the pink of condition, fine as silk, and
next season, if nothing happens. look out
for him.